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ChatGPT Telegram Bot

A Telegram bot that integrates with OpenAI's official ChatGPT, DALL·E and Whisper APIs to provide answers. Ready to use with minimal configuration required.

Screenshots

Features

• Support markdown in answers
• Reset conversation with the /reset command
• Typing indicator while generating a response
• Access can be restricted by specifying a list of allowed users
• Docker and Proxy support
• (NEW!) Image generation using DALL·E via the /image command
• (NEW!) Transcribe audio and video messages using Whisper (may require ffmpeg)
• (NEW!) Automatic conversation summary to avoid excessive token usage
• (NEW!) Track token usage per user - by @AlexHTW
• (NEW!) Get personal token usage statistics and cost per day/month via the /stats command - by @AlexHTW
• (NEW!) User budgets and guest budgets - by @AlexHTW
• (NEW!) Stream support
• (NEW!) GPT-4 support
  • If you have access to the GPT-4 API, simply change the OPENAI_MODEL parameter to gpt-4
• (NEW!) Localized bot language
  • Available languages 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 🇷🇺 🇹🇷 🇮🇹 🇫🇮 🇪🇸 🇮🇩 🇳🇱 🇨🇳 🇹🇼 🇻🇳 🇮🇷 🇧🇷 🇺🇦
• (NEW!) Improved inline queries support for group and private chats - by @bugfloyd
  • To use this feature, enable inline queries for your bot in BotFather via the /setinline command

Additional features - help needed!

If you'd like to help, check out the issues section and contribute!
If you want to help with translations, check out the Translations Manual

PRs are always welcome!

Prerequisites

• Python 3.9+
• A Telegram bot and its token (see tutorial)
• An OpenAI account (see configuration section)

Getting started

Configuration

Customize the configuration by copying .env.example and renaming it to .env, then editing the required parameters as desired:

Parameter	Description
OPENAI_API_KEY	Your OpenAI API key, you can get it from here
TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN	Your Telegram bot's token, obtained using BotFather (see tutorial)
ADMIN_USER_IDS	Telegram user IDs of admins. These users have access to special admin commands, information and no budget restrictions. Admin IDs don't have to be added to ALLOWED_TELEGRAM_USER_IDS. Note: by default, no admin (-)
ALLOWED_TELEGRAM_USER_IDS	A comma-separated list of Telegram user IDs that are allowed to interact with the bot (use getidsbot to find your user ID). Note: by default, everyone is allowed (*)

Optional configuration

The following parameters are optional and can be set in the .env file:

Budgets

Parameter	Description	Default value
BUDGET_PERIOD	Determines the time frame all budgets are applied to. Available periods: daily (resets budget every day), monthly (resets budgets on the first of each month), all-time (never resets budget). See the Budget Manual for more information	monthly
USER_BUDGETS	A comma-separated list of $-amounts per user from list ALLOWED_TELEGRAM_USER_IDS to set custom usage limit of OpenAI API costs for each. For *- user lists the first USER_BUDGETS value is given to every user. Note: by default, no limits for any user (*). See the Budget Manual for more information	*
GUEST_BUDGET	$-amount as usage limit for all guest users. Guest users are users in group chats that are not in the ALLOWED_TELEGRAM_USER_IDS list. Value is ignored if no usage limits are set in user budgets (USER_BUDGETS=*). See the Budget Manual for more information	100.0
TOKEN_PRICE	$-price per 1000 tokens used to compute cost information in usage statistics. Source: https://openai.com/pricing	0.002
IMAGE_PRICES	A comma-separated list with 3 elements of prices for the different image sizes: 256x256, 512x512 and 1024x1024. Source: https://openai.com/pricing	0.016,0.018,0.02
TRANSCRIPTION_PRICE	USD-price for one minute of audio transcription. Source: https://openai.com/pricing	0.006

Check out the Budget Manual for possible budget configurations.

Additional optional configuration options

Parameter	Description	Default value
ENABLE_QUOTING	Whether to enable message quoting in private chats	true
ENABLE_IMAGE_GENERATION	Whether to enable image generation via the /image command	true
ENABLE_TRANSCRIPTION	Whether to enable transcriptions of audio and video messages	true
PROXY	Proxy to be used for OpenAI and Telegram bot (e.g. http://localhost:8080)	-
OPENAI_MODEL	The OpenAI model to use for generating responses. You can find all available models here	gpt-3.5-turbo
ASSISTANT_PROMPT	A system message that sets the tone and controls the behavior of the assistant	You are a helpful assistant.
SHOW_USAGE	Whether to show OpenAI token usage information after each response	false
STREAM	Whether to stream responses. Note: incompatible, if enabled, with N_CHOICES higher than 1	true
MAX_TOKENS	Upper bound on how many tokens the ChatGPT API will return	1200 for GPT-3, 2400 for GPT-4
MAX_HISTORY_SIZE	Max number of messages to keep in memory, after which the conversation will be summarised to avoid excessive token usage	15
MAX_CONVERSATION_AGE_MINUTES	Maximum number of minutes a conversation should live since the last message, after which the conversation will be reset	180
VOICE_REPLY_WITH_TRANSCRIPT_ONLY	Whether to answer to voice messages with the transcript only or with a ChatGPT response of the transcript	false
VOICE_REPLY_PROMPTS	A semicolon separated list of phrases (i.e. Hi bot;Hello chat). If the transcript starts with any of them, it will be treated as a prompt even if VOICE_REPLY_WITH_TRANSCRIPT_ONLY is set to true	-
N_CHOICES	Number of answers to generate for each input message. Note: setting this to a number higher than 1 will not work properly if STREAM is enabled	1
TEMPERATURE	Number between 0 and 2. Higher values will make the output more random	1.0
PRESENCE_PENALTY	Number between -2.0 and 2.0. Positive values penalize new tokens based on whether they appear in the text so far	0.0
FREQUENCY_PENALTY	Number between -2.0 and 2.0. Positive values penalize new tokens based on their existing frequency in the text so far	0.0
IMAGE_SIZE	The DALL·E generated image size. Allowed values: 256x256, 512x512 or 1024x1024	512x512
GROUP_TRIGGER_KEYWORD	If set, the bot in group chats will only respond to messages that start with this keyword	-
IGNORE_GROUP_TRANSCRIPTIONS	If set to true, the bot will not process transcriptions in group chats	true
BOT_LANGUAGE	Language of general bot messages. Currently available: en, de, ru, tr, it, fi, es, id, nl, zh-cn, zh-tw, vi, fa, pt-br, uk. Contribute with additional translations	en

Check out the official API reference for more details.

Installing

Clone the repository and navigate to the project directory:

git clone https://github.com/n3d1117/chatgpt-telegram-bot.git
cd chatgpt-telegram-bot

From Source

1. Create a virtual environment:

python -m venv venv

2. Activate the virtual environment:

# For Linux or macOS:
source venv/bin/activate

# For Windows:
venv\Scripts\activate

3. Install the dependencies using requirements.txt file:

pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Use the following command to start the bot:

python bot/main.py

Using Docker Compose

Run the following command to build and run the Docker image:

docker compose up

Ready-to-use Docker images

You can also use the Docker image from Docker Hub:

docker pull n3d1117/chatgpt-telegram-bot:latest
docker run -it --env-file .env n3d1117/chatgpt-telegram-bot

or using the GitHub Container Registry:

docker pull ghcr.io/n3d1117/chatgpt-telegram-bot:latest
docker run -it --env-file .env ghcr.io/n3d1117/chatgpt-telegram-bot

Docker manual build

docker build -t chatgpt-telegram-bot .
docker run -it --env-file .env chatgpt-telegram-bot

Credits

• ChatGPT from OpenAI
• python-telegram-bot
• jiaaro/pydub

Disclaimer

This is a personal project and is not affiliated with OpenAI in any way.

License

This project is released under the terms of the GPL 2.0 license. For more information, see the LICENSE file included in the repository.